After several weeks of foreign-policy blunders—and a disastrous interview with an adviser who said Carson’s knowledge of international affairs was lacking—Dr. Ben Carson’s presidential campaign may be thinking of taking the candidate abroad on the potential world leader’s equivalent of a school trip.

Officials told CBS that Carson, who currently has Secret Service protection due to his status as a top candidate, is pulling the traveling-abroad-to-bolster-foreign-policy-credentials card, a common tactic among presidential wannabes who appear to have very little experience in international affairs. (Typically, these multi-day visits include photo ops at famous international landmarks and a publicized handshake with a foreign dignitary.)

Such a trip would certainly help Carson, who, in an interview with the Hill, admitted that his campaign’s taken several hits for his lack of foreign-policy expertise: the neurosurgeon, who has never held elected office, was criticized for his belief that China had a presence in the Syrian war, and was openly disparaged by one of his national security advisers, who complained that Carson didn’t “get” major global issues.

(The Hill interview, for the curious, seems to be an attempt by Carson to finally lay out his foreign-policy initiatives, including the creation of a database tracking Syrian refugees—or at least an attempt to list all the things he’d learned in the past five days.)

According to CBS’s sources, Carson is mulling a trip either to Africa, Asia, or Australia. And why Australia? Is it because it’s a hotbed of political instability breeding religious extremism? Or a booming trade partner with the U.S., with players that threaten to undermine America’s economy with a cheap labor force and wild disregard for copyright protection? Nope: the campaign notes that Carson worked there as a neurosurgeon in 1983. (Or maybe, just maybe, Carson’s just getting in touch with his koala roots.)